[TX_kiwi]

We're just recommencing our league after the last 'grand final'. It is a purely social activity, we play only for bragging rights and the winners names engraved on a trophy for each game throughout the series.

We're going to have a range of playing skills involved and we're toying with a bounty system. The bounty would be paid to anyone who eliminates a player with their name engraved on the trophy (i.e. a previous winner).

As the series progresses, we'll obviously get more and more names on the trophy and, likely ,some multiple occurances of the same name. This will obviously make the payment of a cash bounty difficult since we're not playing for money and we don't want the bounties to become the focus.

Three questions:

1. Will a bounty on the better players really help to level the playing field or will 'the rich just get richer'?

2. Has anyone had any experience with issuing additional chips as the payout for bounties. Say, 10% of the starting stack for each player eliminated. What are the potential flaws in such an approach?

3. Is there a better way to help novice players?

[ttflyr]

We use bounty's different than most. At first we put a bounty on the last winner, $5 each. Whoever takes them out wins the bounty. If the guy with the bounty throws $5 in also, they get the bounty pot for themselves with the 1st place win. You talk about a cluster f***. I never saw people become so crazy. We had a 3 round unlimited rebuy of $10 buy-ins. Everybody was ganging up on the bounty player to win $45-$75 and then rebuy and play serious. They last winner was always paralized. Eveytime he tried to play a hand he was ganged up on! We had lots of fun.....but the poker players were getting restless. I soon changed the bounty so we had a $10-$20 buy in and a $5 bounty per person. This way, no one is ganged up on (bounty not worth changing your game) you get back to playing real poker and you are rewarded for taking people out. I usually play good enough that I at least get 1-3 bounty's even if I don't make it to the cash.
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[detroitdad]

TTflyer----We do the same thing (the few times we have had a bounty). Each player gets a 5 dollar bounty, collect your bounties when your eliminated.

Back to the OP...........I don't think you should skew the game in any way to give the "inexperienced" players an advantage. Maybe you can recommend CT and HPT to them, suggest some poker books, ect.... Practice is the best way to learn.

If you do anything to give them an advantage your risking losing the solid players that have put in their time.

Basically my same response to this post at HPT.

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